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⌈ Secret Post #3255 ⌋

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[Paul Walker, Fast and Furious movies]

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[Inuyasha]

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[Z Nation]

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[Hugh Dancy (and Claire Danes)]

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[Jessica Jones]

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[The Oatmeal]

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[Star Wars: The Old Republic]

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[Harry Potter]

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Or, resolutions to stories that were supposed to be positive, but are actually quite alarming.

OP here - I was thinking of the Archie comic I read where Betty was kidnapped, but didn't call the police "because the man was just lonely."

W.T.F.?!?!

Archie comics don't really take place in a dimension where logic applies, though

The go to for me would be the Sword of Truth book where Richard kills a bunch of pacifists.

That's not a broken Aesop, so much as Terry Goodkind is a broken human being

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It doesn't take an agiel to the testicles to realize Goodkind's got a whole jar of screws loose but instead of getting therapy he decided to write a bestselling fantasy series.

The ending of Elfen Lied.

Right up until the end I thought the ultimate moral of the story was going to be something like "hey, diclonius are people too and what's being done to them is wrong," and then the ending is all NOPE, LET'S KILL 'EM ALL.

Fuck that manga. I wish I hadn't been stupid enough read it all the way to the end. It was not worth my time.

My Little Pony FIM had quite a few, I thought. The worst I remember is the episode where they're trying to get rid of an infestation of bugs that are wrecking everything fast, and Pinkie Pie just keeps yelling that she needs musical instruments. Of course everyone ignores her because they're too busy trying to get rid of the bugs, but at the end it turns out the bugs are driven away by music and if everyone had just listened to Pinkie they could have solved the problem.

Except Pinkie never told them that was why she needed the instruments! The moral should have been "If you want people to listen to you, be clear about your message," and instead it was "Listen to your friends even if they're not making sense because you just might be pleasantly surprised~ :)"

Yeahh, FIM had a lot of those. I was mostly upset by the episode where RD (whose character was already being butchered at this point) was supposed to learn a lesson about not being a creepy stalker fangirl but the lesson at the end was "persistence pays off when it comes to your favorite celebs!" and ugh.

That was the last episode I watched, btw. I was done after that. But it wasn't the only one. There were several, especially later on.

The end of Agents of SHIELD, season 2, regarding Skye's father.

Yeah, I gotta agree with that. In world it made a kind of twisted 'sense,' in that it shows rather unpleasantly the weird grey line SHIELD has to live on sometimes - which has only been furthered this week with Coulson's sudden plunge into recklessness.

It's still super squicky and unpleasantly unethical.

Hannibal, a little. Yes, I know I'm missing the point, but still.

Oldie but Breakfast Club

Naruto. That series is full of broken/problematic aesops.

This kids book, 'The Rainbow Fish'. The RF has special, fancy scales and everyone is jealous/sad because they *don't* so he gets berated into giving away all but one of his fancy scales so everyone else can be just as 'special' as he is. I find that to be just...gross. 'You have a special gift/talent/amazing hair/whatever! So parcel it out to all of us jealous whiners so we feel better!!'

I took it back to the bookstore. Blech.

Huh. I never really thought about that ending that way.

Now I want to re-read that book to see what I think. I haven't in a long time, but I always liked it.

I know a lot of people still like it, it just always rubbed me the wrong way.

Somewhat in the same vein:

In Sarah Jio's terrible Goodnight, June, the bright spot in the protagonist's childhood is her cool great-aunt, the owner of an awesome children's bookstore. Protag's ditzy, hard-partying mom is never home, leaving protag and her sister (at the ages of 8 and 4) to look after themselves until great-aunt swoops in and rescues them.

Part of the happy ending is that Protag discovers that the mom who made a cat's breakfast of bringing her up is actually her first cousin; her bio-mom is...the bookstore-owning aunt. Protag's is the product of Auntie's torrid affair with the married man who also gifted her with the bookstore. (The affair is okay because we're repeatedly told that the cheated-on wife is a terrible woman who only cares about money and status.)

Fearing that her lover's wife will try to kidnap Baby Protag, Auntie gave Protag to her niece to raise. Niece (Protag's cousin, who Protag grew up thinking was her mom) wasn't married and was all of 20 at the time. On top of that, the niece had already had to bring up her younger siblings because their mom (Auntie's older sister) died when niece was 13.

No explanation of why Auntie left a 13 year old with that responsibility--or stuck her with another baby to raise, then blamed her for making a mess of it.

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spoilers--but you don't want to read this shitty piece of chick-lit